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Talal Itani· published 2012
Say, "Have you considered? If God took away your hearing and your sight, and set a seal on your hearts, what god other than God would restore them to you?" Note how We explain the revelations in various ways, yet they still turn away.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
Say: Have ye imagined, if Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and seal your hearts, Who is the Allah Who could restore it to you saveAllah? See how We display the revelations unto them! Yet still they turn away
Sources
Translation Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·Public domain — copyright term expired
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Edward Henry Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
Say, 'Look you now! if God should catch your hearing and your sight, and should set a seal upon your hearts - who is god but God to bring you it again
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
SAY: What think ye? If God should take away your hearing and your sight and set a seal upon your hearts, what god beside God would restore them to you? See! how we vary our wondrousverses (signs)! yet they turn away from them
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Say, 'Will you tell me, if God should take away your hearing and your sight, and seal up your hearts, who is the god other than God who can bring it back to you?' See how We expound the Signs in various ways, yet they turn away
Sources
Translation George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Other languages (18)Shqip · Albanian
Thuaj: "Më thoni, nëse Allahu jua merr dëgjimin e shikimin dhe jua vulos zemrat, cili zot përveç Allahut do t'jua kthente ato?!" Shih se si ua shpjegojmë provat e ata sërish shmangen!
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
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বাংলা · Bengali
বল: ‘তোমরা কি ভেবে দেখেছ, আল্লাহ যদি তোমাদের শ্রবণশক্তি ও দৃষ্টিশক্তি কেড়ে নেন এবং তোমাদের অন্তরসমূহে মোহর মেরে দেন, তবে আল্লাহ ছাড়া কি কোন ইলাহ আছেন, যে তোমাদেরকে এগুলো ফিরিয়ে দিবেন?‘ দেখো, কেমন করে আমি বিভিন্নভাবে আয়াতসমূহ বর্ণনা করি; এরপরও তারা এগুলো থেকে মুখ ফিরিয়ে নেয়।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Reci: "Kažite vi meni, ako bi vam Allah sluh vaš i vid vaš oduzeo i srca vaša zapečatio, koji bi vam bog, osim Allaha, to vratio?!" Pogledaj kako ajete i znakove izlažemo, a oni se opet okreću."
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Reci: "Kažite vi meni, ako bi vam Allah sluh vaš i vid vaš oduzeo i srca vaša zapečatio, koji bi vam bog, osim Allaha, to vratio?!" Pogledaj kako ajete i znakove izlažemo, a oni se opet okreću."
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Maaku : "njeetenee kam! Si Alla nanngi nanɗe mon ɗen e ji'iɗe mon ɗen, o notii e ɓerɗe mon ɗeen, ko hommbo e reweteeɓe ko woori Alla artiranta on ɗuym? Ndaarii ko holno Min pirlitirta Aayeeje ɗeen! Refti heɓe ɗuurnoo.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
უთხარი (ო, მოციქულო): «ნუთუ არ დაფიქრებულხართ, თუკი ალლაჰი წაგართმევთ სმენასა და მხედველობას და დაბეჭდავს თქვენს გულებს, მაშინ რომელი ღმერთი, ალლაჰის გარდა, დაგიბრუნებთ ამას?» შეხედე, როგორ ვანაწილებთ ჩვენ ნიშნებს (აიათებს)! შემდეგ კი ისინი (ამის მიუხედავად) თავს არიდებენ (ამაზე დაფიქრებას).
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Sag: „Was meint ihr, wenn Allah euer Gehör und euer Augenlicht (weg)nähme und eure Herzen versiegelte, wer ist der Anbetungswürdige außer Allah, der es euch zurückgeben könnte?“ Schau, wie Wir die Zeichen verschiedenartig darlegen! Dennoch wenden sie sich hierauf ab.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Πες (ω, Μωχάμμαντ, στους ειδωλολάτρες): «Πείτε μου, εάν ο Αλλάχ αφαιρούσε την ακοή και την όρασή σας και σφράγιζε τις καρδιές σας, ποιος θεός εκτός από τον Αλλάχ θα μπορούσε να σας τα φέρει πίσω;» Κοίτα πως αποσαφηνίζουμε τα σημάδια (και δίνουμε πολλά διαφορετικά επιχειρήματα), και έπειτα αυτοί αποστρέφονται!
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हिन्दी · Hindi
ऐ नबी! आप कह दें कि भला बताओ तो सही कि यदि अल्लाह तुम्हारे सुनने तथा देखने की शक्ति छीन ले और तुम्हारे दिलों पर मुहर लगा दे, तो अल्लाह के सिवा कौन-सा पूज्य है, जो तुम्हें ये चीज़ें लाकर दे? देखो, हम कैसे तरह-तरह से आयतें[36] बयान करते हैं, फिर (भी) वे मुँह फेर लेते[37] हैं।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
Di’: «Che ne direste se Allāh vi togliesse il vostro udito e la vostra vista e sigillasse i vostri cuori? Quale divinità all’infuori di Allāh ve li potrebbe restituire?» Osserva come, quando chiariamo i Nostri Segni, poi li contrastano!
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Lietuvių · Lithuanian
46. Sakyk (netikintiesiems): „Pasakykite man, jei Allahas atimtų jūsų klausą ir jūsų regėjimą, ir užantspauduotų jūsų širdis, koks kitas ilah (dievas) nei Allahas galėtų tai jums grąžinti?“ Pažvelkite, kaip įvairiai Mes aiškiname Ajat (įrodymus, įkalčius, eilutes, pamokas, ženklus, apreiškimus ir t. t.), tačiau jie vis tiek nukrypsta.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
Скажи: «Как вы думаете, если Аллах отнимет ваш слух и ваше зрение и запечатает ваши сердца — то какой бог, кроме Аллаха, вернёт вам их?» Посмотри, как Мы разнообразно разъясняем знамения, но затем они отворачиваются.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Реци: „Кажите ви мени, ако би вам Аллах одузео ваш слух и ваш вид и запечатио ваша срца, који би вам бог, осим Аллаха, то вратио?!“ Погледај како доказе и знакове излажемо, а они се опет окрећу.“
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Sema: Mwaonaje Mwenyezi Mungu akinyakua kusikia kwenu, na kuona kwenu, na akaziziba nyoyo zenu, ni mungu gani asiyekuwa Mwenyezi Mungu atakayewaletea hayo tena? Angalia vipi tunavyozieleza Ishara, kisha wao wanapuuza.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
Svenska · Swedish
Säg: ”Berätta för mig: om Gud tog er hörsel och syn ifrån er och förseglade era hjärtan – vilken gud, förutom Gud, skulle då kunna återge er det?” Se hur vi varierar bevisen, ändå vänder de sig bort!
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
De ki: Söyleyin bana! Allah, kulaklarınızı ve gözlerinizi alsa, kalplerinizi de mühürlese, Allah’tan başka onu size geri getirecek ilâh kimdir? Ayetleri nasıl açıkladığımıza bir bak, sonra da onlar nasıl yüz çeviriyorlar.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
اردو · Urdu
آپ کہئے کہ یہ بتلاؤ اگر اللہ تعالیٰ تمہاری سماعت اور بصارت بالکل لے لے اور تمہارے دلوں پر مہر کردے تو اللہ تعالیٰ کے سوا اور کوئی معبود ہے کہ یہ تم کو پھر دے دے۔ آپ دیکھئے تو ہم کس طرح دﻻئل کو مختلف پہلوؤں سے پیش کر رہے ہیں پھر بھی یہ اعراض کرتے ہیں۔[1]
Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.
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Talal Itani2012 Then, when they disregarded what they were reminded of, We opened for them the gates of all things. Until, when they delighted in what they were given, We seized them suddenly; and at once, they were in despair.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Then, when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, We opened unto them the gates of all things till, even as they were rejoicing in that which they were given, We seized them unawares, and lo! they were dumbfounded
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And when they forgot what they were reminded of, we opened for them the gates of everything, until when they rejoiced at what they had, we caught them up suddenly, and lo! they were in despair
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they had forgotten their warnings, we set open to them the gates of all things, until, as they were rejoicing in our gifts, we suddenly laid hold upon them, and lo! they were plunged into despair
George Sale1734 When they forgot that with which they had been admonished, and We opened unto them the gates of all things, till, even as they were rejoicing in what they were given, We seized them suddenly, and lo! they were in utter despair
Easy-read (simplified)qul ara'aytakum in ataakum 'adhaabu llaahi baghtatan aw jahratan hal yuhlaku illaa l-qawmu z-zaalimoon
DIN 31635qul ʾaraʾaytakum ʾin ʾatākum ʿaḏābu llāhi baġtatan ʾaw ǧahratan hal yuhlaku ʾillā l-qawmu ẓ-ẓālimūna
The translators word this verse differently
Talal Itani2012 Say, "Have you considered? if God's punishment descended on you suddenly or gradually, would any be destroyed except the wrongdoing people?"
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Say: Can ye see yourselves, if the punishment of Allah come upon you unawares or openly? Would any perish save wrongdoing folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Say, 'Look you now! if God's torment should come upon you suddenly or openly, would any perish save the people who do wrong
John Medows Rodwell1861 SAY: What think ye? If the punishment of God come on you suddenly or foreseen, shall any perish except the impious
George Sale1734 Say, 'Will you tell me, if the punishment of God come upon you suddenly or openly, will any be destroyed save the wrongdoing people
Talal Itani2012 We sent the messengers only as bearers of good news and as warners. Those who believe and reform have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 We send not the messengers save as bearers of good news and warners. Whoso believeth and doeth right, there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We do not send our messengers save as heralds of glad tidings and of warning, and whoso believes and acts aright, there is no fear for them, and they shall not be grieved
John Medows Rodwell1861 We send not our Sent Ones but as heralds of good news and warners; and whoso shall believe and amend, on them shall come no fear, neither shall they be sorrowful
George Sale1734 And We sent not the Messengers but as bearers of glad tidings and as Warners. So those who believe and reform themselves, on them shall come no fear nor shall they grieve
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.73
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.69
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.66
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.57
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.56
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.55
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.55
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.54
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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Parsed structurally from the EPUB: an h3 names the surah, one p per verse with its number in its own span. An unnumbered p is the basmala and is not a verse, except in surah 1 where the basmala IS verse 1. 112 unnumbered paragraphs were found, which is 114 surahs less surah 1 and surah 9. Text is stored VERBATIM: NFC normalisation and XML entity unescaping only, because CC BY-ND forbids modification.
CLEARED on a licence read first-hand from the translator's own download page, not from an aggregator. Tanzil also hosts this translation, but under a blanket "non-commercial purposes only" term that directs the user to the translator or publisher for permission - a hosting disclaimer, not a grant - so the grant was taken from the licensor directly. The "God" edition was ingested; ClearQuran also publishes an "Allah" edition, differing in how the divine name is rendered, which is not ingested.
CLEARED ON THE WORK, WITH TWO RECORDED CAVEATS ON THIS COPY. (1) Rights basis is the expired copyright term, NOT the redistributing repository's licence. That repository dedicates its contents to the public domain under the Unlicense while also redistributing plainly in-copyright translations (Abdel Haleem, Saheeh International, The Study Quran), so it is dedicating rights it cannot hold and its blanket grant is not relied upon here. (2) The file declares its own upstream as tanzil.net, and Tanzil attaches a non-commercial condition to its TRANSLATION distributions, though not to its Qur'anic text. Since Pickthall's copyright has expired, nobody holds rights in these words and no licence is required from anyone; Tanzil's terms are a contract binding those who download from Tanzil, which we did not. The chain is nonetheless not spotless and Anwar may prefer a clean digitisation of the 1930 printing. NOT VERIFIED: that this digital text matches the 1930 first printing rather than a later revised edition. No page images were collated. Recorded as unverified rather than presented as established. SERVED TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE CITED FILE AT ONE VERSE, 37:97: the file reads "red-hotfire" (a glued token, also in Gutenberg #16955); the served row reads "red-hot fire", restored 2026-09-13 from Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London: George Allen & Unwin, printed for Alfred A. Knopf; 1930), p. 460, XXXVII 97 - scan archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.216140, PDF page 475; banked data/derivation-sources/pickthall-1930-dli-2015.216140-text.pdf (sha256 70e81146c97fa3a590243a82e04e349108546074787e2551a78c616202138870) on Anwar Malik's grant.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is not stated by the redistributor and the printing is unverified. No statement of purpose is recorded for Palmer because none was sourced from his own preface in this pass; nothing is asserted on his behalf.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. TWO edition caveats. (1) The upstream is not stated by the redistributor. (2) Rodwell's own edition PRESENTS THE SURAHS IN HIS OWN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, not the mushaf order — he says so in his preface. This digital text is keyed to mushaf order, so it derives from a restored-order printing (such as the Everyman edition) rather than from Rodwell's own arrangement. Which printing is not stated and has not been established.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is NOT STATED by the redistributor, so the printing it represents is unverified; Sale's text was reprinted and re-edited many times between 1734 and 1900. Recorded as unverified rather than assumed to be the first edition.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.